Published on: October 3, 2007 at 1:21 PM

Thanks to James Cain for these images… he writes:

“I took these pictures of this morning’s sunrise on the way home from Memphis. I was over Tupelo and starting snapping pictures of the sun coming up over a broken layer at 6000 feet. My iPhone camera doesn’t do the beautiful colors justice…
Right after I finished taking these pictures, Columbus approach warned me of “an area of level 1 though level 6 precip” right in front of me! Well you can see in #19 (through the prop) that it was severe clear! Then it dawned (no pun intended) on me that his radar must be picking up the sunlight reflecting funny off the layer of clouds at 6000. I informed him that his level 6 precip was actually a level 6 sunrise!”